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Using idle trucks to power the grid Incentives under
with clean energy EMPS for EVs
U niversity of Waterloo pipeline and use their trucks’ he Ministry of Heavy
are
idle fuel cells as generators to
researchers
Industries has approved
tapping into idled
provide electricity to the grid.
11 EV manufacturers
vehicles
electric
The result is less vehicle traffic
to receive incentives
to act as mobile
generators and help power on highways, reduced energy Tunder the recently
use at peak times and cleaner
introduced Electric Mobility
overworked and aging electricity way to store energy. Promotion Scheme (EMPS)
grids. After analysing energy 2024. The scheme replaces the
demand on Alberta’s power grid Waterloo graduate student former Faster Adoption and
during rush hour, the research Daniel Ding developed a Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles
proposed an innovative way to mathematical model to simulate – II (FAME-II) scheme. The new
replenish electrical grids with the operation, then used scheme, with an allocation of Rs
power generated from fuel software to analyse and model 500 crore, commenced on April
cells in trucks. According to the the feasibility and potential
researchers, Canada’s power of hydrogen fuel cell-powered 1 and will continue till July 31.
grids need to be upgraded. electric vehicles to balance the There has been a reduction in
grid load and decrease the peak the maximum subsidy cap. For
The team’s research builds on price and carbon intensity. electric two-wheelers, the cap is
vehicle-to-grid technology which now Rs 10,000 per vehicle, down
employs special chargers to push This energy storage solution from Rs 22,500, and for electric
unused energy from electric has application beyond trucks. three-wheelers, it is Rs 50,000,
vehicle (EV) batteries back to Heavy-duty vehicles and trains reduced from Rs 111,505. Both
the power grid for storage. This – like switcher locomotives that categories will receive incentives
electricity in-storage can support typically are idled until they are of Rs 5,000 per kilowatt-hour
the grid during weather-related needed to change train routes – (kWh). The EV manufacturers
outages or to reduce the demand could also be early adopters. that got approved for EMPS
during peak periods.
According to the researchers, 2024 are Ather Energy, Bajaj
The research proposes paying the increasing demand to Auto, BGauss Auto, Ola Electric,
drivers of fuel cell powered decarbonize heavy duty TVS Motor, Quantum Energy,
trucks to rest during rush hour vehicles, the fuel cell electric Hero MotoCorp, Hop Electric,
and while resting, to plug into vehicle fleet is expected to Kinetic Green, TI Clean Mobility
a hydrogen refuelling station or expand rapidly. and Mahindra.
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